Research Guides: Sustainable Urban Environments: International Resources

Country Overviews

CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Europa World Yearbook
Europa World Yearbook provides profiles for over 250 countries and territories. Profiles include political and economic information as well as statistics and information on religion, media and press.

International

Business Monitor Online
Business Monitor International is an independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering 175 countries and 22 industry sectors. They work to integrate Country Risk and Financial Markets analysis with Industry Research, to best inform decision-making at the highest level in multinational companies, financial institutions, multilaterals and government.

Bloomberg
Bloomberg is a terminal-bound financial services platform with advanced analytical and data functions. To learn more about how to find and use NYU's Bloomberg terminals, please consult our Bloomberg guide. The Bloomberg terminal includes full text access to Bloomberg.com via the BBG command.

Must be accessed on-site at NYU's Bobst (Greenwich Village), Brause (Midtown), Dibner (Downtown Brooklyn), Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi Libraries.

CEIC Data
Provides economic research on emerging and developed markets by economists around the globe.
Datastream
Comprehensive online historical database service provided by Thomson Financial that encompasses a broad range of financial entities and instruments with global geographical coverage. For example, Datastream includes daily prices, trading volumes, and return indices, updated at the end of every trading day, for over 100,000 equities in nearly 200 countries around the world.* Datastream also includes data on bonds, options and other derivatives, mutual funds (unit trusts), market indices, exchange rates, macroeconomic variables, and corporate financial data.**This resource is only accessible in Bobst Library. To use this resource, stop by the 5th floor Reference Center.
Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC)
This section of this very useful resource contains a section on "Central Banks and Monetary Authorities." In all, EDIRC lists more than 12,000 sites.
Emerging Markets Information System
Articles, news, analyst reports and financial filings for publicly held companies in 35 emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
Environment Complete
Indexes journal articles. Provides coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Europa World Yearbook
Provides profiles for over 250 countries and territories. Profiles provide political and economic information as well as statistics and information on religion, media and press, and more.
Global Development Finance
Offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
Global Market Information Database
Provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers. Details are available on 80 countries. **NYU NetID and Password required**
Global State of Metropolis 2020 – Population Data Booklet
This Data Booklet uses the datasets from the 2018 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects to analyse both global and regional metropolitan trends among the United Nations Regional Groups. This Booklet is in support to the preparation of the forthcoming UN-Habitat Global State of Metropolis Report.
International Financial Statistics
A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
Meridian Securities Market
25 years of international stock market information from over 45 stock exchanges, industry sectors and 800 stock indices.
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Includes 20 Book collections by theme, containing all OECD monographs and reports; 24 periodicals; a reference title; and the OECD statistical databases. Also includes IEA Statistics.
Our World In Data
The research publications on Our World in Data are dedicated to a large range of global problems in health, education, violence, political power, human rights, war, poverty, inequality, energy, hunger, and humanity’s impact on the environment.
PAIS Index
Useful for public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Covers 1972-present.
PRS Country Data
Detailed political risk rankings, economic indicators and forecasts for over 160 countries.
UN Data
Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. The numerous databases or tables collectively known as "datamarts" contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.
UN Habitat
The UN-Habitat’s vision of “a better quality of life for all in an urbanizing world” is bold and ambitious. UN-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty.
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics
Every year over 130 countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country. These data are processed into a standard format with consistent coding and valuation. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries, or derived from monthly market rates and volume of trade.
WorldBank eLibrary
The World Bank e-library is one of the most comprehensive collections in the area of social and economic development.
World Development Indicators
WDI Online is the premiere data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 800 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2007 for 227 economies. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, charted, and mapped.

Statistical Information

Africa Development Indicators
Contains over 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, mapped, and charted.

CEIC Data
CEIC Data provides economic research on emerging and developed markets by economists around the globe. Users can navigate the data portal to create "insights," or data extracts on indicators associated with trade and economy.

Users are advised to register for an account with CEIC before creating data extracts. NYU users who navigate from the library page may access the resource by clicking "Guest login" on the resource homepage.

Central Bank List
A single point of entry to the websites of central banks, monetary authorities, regulatory authorities and supervisory agencies.

Eurostat

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, provides statistics at the European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Users can bulk download tables and access full metadata and documentation for data that measures indicators across a range of socio-demographic and economic indicators.
FitchConnect
Formerly known as BMI Research, FitchConnect contains proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering many countries and industries. Their research features country risk, financial markets analysis, and industry research.

Select 'Sign in at New York University" to access the database.
Global Financial Development

Global Financial Development offers external debt and financial flow data for the countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. Indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
Finaeon
Formerly Global Financial Data, global coverage of economic and financial time-series and historical data. It includes data on bonds, commodities, interest rates, stock markets and indices, futures, exchange rates, GDP, prices, and unemployment.
Passport
Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.

Requires Net ID and password.
IndiaStat
IndiaStat provides access to statistics on health, higher education, agricultural and industrial production information, economic statistics, and tourism related data in India. The database also contains information bank and financial institutions, companies, co-operatives, crime and law, population, foreign trade, labour and workforce, housing, media, power, transport, urban-rural settlements, and economy.

To access this resource, click on Log-in, and then click IP address to authenticate. Access is limited to one user at a time.
IMF Data
IMF Data provides access to International financial statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database

Please sign up for an invididual log-in to download datasets and access certain features.

National Statistical Offices
Data sources and links for national statistical offices around the world.
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Netword Data Sets
Earth science data and services, including international forecasts.
OECD iLibrary
Publications portal of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Access to monographs and full text of all periodicals, as well as a statistical database.

Oxford Economics
Oxford Economics offers tools to help with quantitative analysis and rigorous economic forecasting. Using an evidence-based approach to economic analysis to help with investment, policy and market decisions. Click on the subscriptions tab to access NYU content. NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.

NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.

We are currently experiencing remote access issues. If you are not on campus, please use VPN to access.
Political Risk Yearbook and CountryData
Political Risk Yearbook provides political risk reports for the current year for many countries. CountryData allows users to generate exportable tables with political risk rankings and economic indicators for current and historical years, as well as current forecasts, for various countries.

Country Data is available on campus only. Use NYU VPN for off-campus access.
Statista
Statista aggregates data on markets, industry, politics, economics, and population. Users can export datasets in a variety of formats. Sources include trade publications, market and opinion research institutions, government sources, business and economic databases, reference publications, media sources, and scholarly articles. Include Statista's "Global Consumer Survey", which helps marketers understand consumer behavior and brand interaction.
Statistical Insight
Statistical Insight provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. This resource includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), including Statistical Datasets. Dates of coverage: 1973 to present.
UN Comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics
UN comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics contains the annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country.

To access premium subscriptions for bulk downloads and API features, you'll need to create an account for the initial setup. Please follow the instructions here.

World Development Indicators
Development data covering 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years (1960 to present where data are available).
World Weather Information Service
This global web site presents official weather observations, weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide.